Communication Spotlight

Sarah K. Fields, Communication Professor and Associate Dean, was recently named a co-editor of the Terry and Jan Todd Series on Physical Culture and Sports at the University of Texas Press .

Communication Professor Stephen John Hartnett delivered the Presidential Address at the 2017 annual National Communication Association Conference in Dallas, Texas on “ Communication, Globalization, and the Prospects of Solidarity ,” stressing the importance of forming collaborative international partnerships that link scholars and students.

Communication MA student Eli Woody Scrivner had an op-ed published by The Capital-Journal . "We engage in binary thinking by creating two sides in a conversation, and these two sides almost always boil down to ‘right’ or ‘wrong.’ When we hear someone present a standpoint that is different than ours,...

Communication Associate Professor and International Studies Director Hamilton Bean has had a flurry of 11 publications this year reflecting his scholarship on terrorism and international studies, including: “How communication theory can help counter-terrorism stakeholders” in Spectra , “A genosonic analysis of ISIL and U.S. counter-extremism video messages” in Media, War...

Communication Associate Professor CT, Patrick Dodge, received a commendation from the National Communication Association for his work with the "Task Force to Foster International Collaborations in the Age of Globalization," involving many research and pedagogy based projects, as well as co-planning several international conferences with the Communication University of China.

Communication Assistant Professor Mia Fischer received the 2017 Outstanding Dissertation Award from the LGBTQ Division of the National Communication Association for her 2016 doctoral dissertation, "Terrorizing Gender: Transgender Visibility and the Surveillance Practices of the U.S. Security State" (completed at the University of Minnesota, advised by Drs. Mary Vavrus and...

The Department of Communication’s Professor Stephen Hartnett, Associate Professor and Chair Lisa Keranen, and (past ICB Instructor) Donovan Conley published their edited scholarly book Imagining China: Rhetorics of Nationalism in an Age of Globalization (2017, Michigan State University Press). Imagining China explores how U.S. and Chinese officials, scholars, and activists...

Hamilton Bean , Associate Professor in Communication, has published a chapter in the latest edition of New Agendas in Communication, Strategic Communication . This series, published by Routledge, brings together groups of emerging scholars to tackle important interdisciplinary themes that demand new scholarly attention and reach broadly across the communication...

Sarah K. Fields , Associate Professor of Communication, recently published Game Faces: Sport Celebrity and the Laws of Reputation and discusses how sports figures cope with a level of celebrity once reserved for the stars of stage and screen. She’s also a go to speaking on her research in the...

The CU Denver Association of Lecturers and Instructors (UCDALI) is pleased to announce the recipients of the University of Colorado Denver CLAS Non-Tenure Track Faculty Professional Development grants for spring 2017, selected from a pool of impressive candidates. Masoud Asidi-Zeybadadi and Richard Geyer , Department of Physics, will continue work...